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Essential Planting Equipment
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items Hey there, fellow plant lover! 🌱 If you’re ready to dig into the wonderful world of gardening, you’ve come to the right place. I’m excited to share my favourite Essential Planting Equipment that will help you nurture your green friends and create a ...
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Home Made Potting Mix Equipment
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Planting and Growing Essentials
Home Made Potting Mix Equipment
All of the safety equipment and basic equipment needed to make any home made potting mix.
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These have been my favourite disposable masks as they fit my head very well and have adjustable straps on the side so it fits snug to your face.
JSP P3 Valved Disposable dust mask Olympus® 800 Series
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This is my favourite reusable mask for making my home made potting mix as the perlite dust that is kicked up when mix the home made potting mix cant get through it.
GVS Reusable respiratory mask SPR501
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there the best size for mix my potting mix for my collection but you can get any size container and it will do, but i usually make big batches of it in one of these.
2 x Heavy Duty Multipurpose 80 Litre Home Office Clear Plastic Storage Containers With Lids
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I use this as a measuring container! I do two full ones of soil and one full one of perlite and orchid bark.
Plastic Buckets Tubs White Transparent Tamper Evident Lids 1 bucket 20L
Planting and Growing Essentials
My favourite re-potting essentials and equipment. For my grow light is generally buy a standing floor lamp from somewhere like IKEA or Dunelm and change the bulb for a grow light
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It is affordable and does its job, I think its the only trowel i've re-bought.
Magnusson Trowel
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This is definitely one of my favourite grow light stations. It's cheaper than most I've been able to find. I mostly grow herbs on it but have occasionally put overflow propagation's on it and they have done quite well.
Hydroponics Growing System with Full Spectrum LED Light - Indoor Smart Garden Microgreen & Herb Germinator for Kitchen, Windowsill
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This is the grow light that I use, I have about five of these around my house in the more shaded areas of my home and the plants there do just as well as the ones at my windows.
Pianta 18W Full Spectrum LED Grow Light
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This is usually the type of floor lamp that I get as it is easily adjustable, the bulb can be changed and it projects the light quite far.
Lever Arm Floor Lamp
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I prefer the metal ones simply because they go with the design of my house better.
Auburn Metal Adjustable Floor Lamp
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One of my favourite designs as it points in many different directions. It also goes well with the style of my house.
Milas 3 Light Black Industrial Floor Lamp
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I don't know why but these are my favourite pair of snippers that I've found they are great for propagation and trimming down plants
Heavy Duty Serrated Bypass Secateurs Hand Pruners Garden Sheers Cutters
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For large climbing plant such as devils Ivy. You can find this anywhere but this is the cheapest one I've found that still does a really good job!
VELCRO Plant Ties Tape, 12mm x 5m, Green
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My favourite for spraying and misting and can get to the plants at the back of my shelves better than my hand mister can. I will also but my hand mister in this list though.
Hand Pump sprayer 5L
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This is the hand spray bottle that I have. I bought this a while ago but it still dose its job very well.
High-density polyethylene (HDPE), polypropylene (PP) & PVC Empty spray bottle
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I put these in terracotta sorcers to water the plants! I use these on the plants that I put outside in the summer we they last longer in the sun outdoors.
Verve Laleh Brown Terracotta Grow pot (Dia) 13.1cm, (H)11.3cm, 1L
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I use this size for most of my ferns plants as they don't usually get to a large size for me so do nice in this size.
Verve Lei Terracotta Brown Plastic Grow pot (Dia) 10cm, (H)12cm, Pack of 5, 600ml
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These are my go to for my proposition plants as they are cheap and just the right size.
Verve Lei Terracotta Brown Plastic Grow pot (Dia) 7.6cm, (H)10cm, 280ml